New Renewable Energy Facility Unveiled

摘要

On July 16, a gathering of county officials, staff, engineers and contractorsat the Tajiguas landfill in Santa Barbara, California, for thegrand opening of the County’s new recycling and waste managementfacility. The ReSource Center will allow the county to truck in and processits own waste, turning it into recyclables and renewable energy rather than sending it to landfill. The facility will boost the county’sdiversion rate by 60 percent, to a total diversion rate of 85 percent.Drastically reducing the amount of material buried will help extendthe life of the landfill by a decade (the landfill was previously projectedto reach capacity in the next few years).